Tough one. That was a great series. Some incredible basketball by both teams. I don't know how the Spurs hung in there against a team that should have beat them in 5 games. But that's a credit to the Spurs toughness and class. This series will be analyzed for years to come, but the difference was the incredible defense by Miami in the final two games. They negated the Spurs 3 point shooting while also containing Tim Duncan to a degree. That was no easy task, and the Heat's defensive play was the ultimate difference. For a team of offensive superstars, I have to tip my hat to Miami's effort on the defensive end. They earned these last two games. And Lebron played like the best player in the league tonight. No doubt about that. So Congrats to the Heat. Now they only have to win 6 or 7 more NBA titles to live up to the hype they created when they manufactured their "dream team."

(Anticipating Peter ignoring all the praise I just gave the Heat and honing in on my last sentence there.)

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Anyone follow the Dodgers? I caught a bit of their game with SF. Everyone was drooling over the new Cuban guy, Puig.

Used to, eons ago when I lived in L.A. Not so much now.

One of the great things about baseball is that you can do so many other things at the same time and not really miss much--take a nap, read a book, write a book, and so on ad infinitum. After the intensity of the NHL and the SC finals, it'll be nice to wind down and relax a little before football season.

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Have been watching the Pirates on and off all season. Often something else will be on tv at 8 or 9, and so I will only watch bits and pieces of a game, but that's fine as I probably couldn't take watching that many entire games anyway. As it so happens they're on right now though, playing the Seattle Rainstorms. Alvarez seems to finally be coming around with the hitting... relatively speaking anyway; I mean, the guy is never gonna be anywhere near .300 for a season, but he may get to .270 at some point in his career. Maybe. Considering his terrible start, if he can get his average that high by the end of this season I will be overjoyed (he's currently at .240, but had a good June with a .313 avg.)

Apparently the Nets are going after Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce. If that fails they are going to try to get some 3000 year old mummies from Egypt, who reportedly play just as well, and will be in the league longer.

The Boston Celtics have have finalized a deal to send three of their players to the Brooklyn Nets for a soup and a sandwich.

Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov was immediately reached for comment.

"It was good" he said in a thick accent. "Americans make good sandwiches, I'll give them that much."

Asked what kind of sandwich he got for the three octogenarians, Prokhorov beamed with pride and said "How do you Americans say it? Balogny!"

He was less forthcoming about the type of soup in the deal. "One must be understanding, that this deal cannot technically be done until the NBAs lets us be doing it in a couple weeks. They let me have the sandwich in good faith, because I told them I was hungry, but the soup they are saving until the deal is being official. More details will be shared in time. Please visit my twitter account at Михаил_Прохоров for informations."

Doc Rivers, who was recently traded to the second Los Angeles team, commented: "This is a good deal for everyone involved. The Celtics get three 1st round draft picks and a bunch of players, and the Nets gets some players who are proven leaders."

Asked how many minutes the team could expect to get out of their new players next season, Nets GM Billy King replied: "What's important here is not so much how many minutes we get, but how much leadership these guys bring. They may only play 3 or 4 minutes per game, before they need to be taken out to prevent exhaustion and injury, but in those few minutes they will show the young guys how to play. They will lead by example."

Some were more skeptical. "What these white boys thinking?" said a Brooklyn fan named Jamaal Jenkins living in Brooklyn. "We don't get the Doc but we get all the stiffs? More money than brains if you ask me!"

Brad Stevens leaves Butler to coach the Boston Celtics. Wow, I just lost tons of respect for that guy.

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Any reason why?

I'd rather live in Boston than Indy, plus the allure of coaching in the NBA plays into it. Also, at the end of the day, it's a job where you make choices for yourself, and coaching in the NBA, and especially the Celtics, is pretty high on a list of accomplishments.

Brad Stevens leaves Butler to coach the Boston Celtics. Wow, I just lost tons of respect for that guy.

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Any reason why?

I'd rather live in Boston than Indy, plus the allure of coaching in the NBA plays into it. Also, at the end of the day, it's a job where you make choices for yourself, and coaching in the NBA, and especially the Celtics, is pretty high on a list of accomplishments.

I guess I can't fault him. It's the way of the world. Money determines most people's values. He just seemed like the epitome of a great college coach. He was doing at Butler what Coach K started off doing at Duke. Just disappointed to see him leave for the pros. One of the reasons why I hate pro sports. Just my perspective.

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